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Daniel Turp 
Member of Parliament for Beauharnois—Salaberry In office
1997–2000Preceded by Laurent Lavigne Succeeded by Serge Marcil MNA for Mercier In office
May 1, 2003 – November 5, 2008Preceded by Nathalie Rochefort Succeeded by Amir Khadir Personal details Born April 30, 1955
Verdun, QuebecPolitical party Bloc Québécois
Parti QuébécoisDaniel Turp (born April 30, 1955 in Verdun, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He has served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997–2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003–2008).
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Biography
Born in Montreal, he studied law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, and received his legal licence in Sherbrooke in 1977. He gained a Master's degree at the Université de Montréal in 1978. He has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency, and was called as an expert for the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on Quebec's constitutional future.
Turp also started teaching at the Université de Montréal since 1982. Since then, he has taught several law courses at the University of Paris X (1986–1996), The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg (1988) and Harvard University (1996). He has also been a director of studies at the International law academy in The Hague (1995).
After lengthy studies, he obtained a doctorate in law at the University of Paris II in 1990. He is also interested in international law and globalization and once worked as a specialist at Harvard University.
Political engagement
Turp joined the Bloc Québécois, becoming that party's Political Affairs Committee president during Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's first term in office. He was defeated in the Papineau-Saint-Michel electoral district in 1996 when he first attempted to become a federal Member of Parliament. He succeeded in 1997, becoming a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Beauharnois—Salaberry riding. He left federal politics in 2000 after being defeated by Liberal Serge Marcil, who was later killed in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
In 2003, he moved to provincial politics under the Parti Québécois and was elected in the riding of Mercier on April 14. Turp became the party spokesman on international relations and sat on the Parliamentary Assembly of la Francophonie.
In 2005, he proposed a project for a Quebec constitution and he signed the Manifeste pour un Québec solidaire (Manifesto for Quebec solidarity). He has published many articles on Quebec sovereignty and its constitutional implications.
Turp supported André Boisclair during the Parti Québécois' party leadership campaign in 2005, and was reelected in the 2007 election. He faced some criticism in 2008 as one of two MNAs, along with Pierre Curzi, who endorsed a controversial petition opposing Paul McCartney's performance at Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations.[1]
He was defeated in 2008 by Amir Khadir, co-leader of Québec solidaire.
In January of 2011, Turp announced that we would be running for the Parti Québécois presidency in Quebec.
Publications
- 1995: L'Avant projet de loi sur la souveraineté : texte annoté, Cowansville, Les Éditions Yvon Blais.
- 2000: La nation bâillonnée : le plan B ou l'offensive d'Ottawa contre le Québec, Montreal, VLB éditeur.
- 2001: Le droit de choisir : Essais sur le droit du Québec à disposer de lui-même/The Right to Choose : Essays of Québec's Right to Self-Determination, Montreal. Éditions Thémis
- 2005: Nous, peuple du Québec : un projet de constitution du Québec. Sainte-Foy, Éditions du Québécois.
- Collaborations
- 1986: G. Beaudoin (dir.), Perspectives canadiennes et européennes des droits de la personne, Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais.
- 1995: Brossard, J. and D. Turp, L'accession à la souveraineté et le cas du Québec : conditions et modalités politico-juridiques, 2nd edition (with supplement), Montreal, PUM.
- 1996: Debard, T., J. Schmidt, V. Nabhan and D. Turp, La régulation juridique des espaces économiques : interactions GATT/OMC, Union européenne et ALÉNA, Lyon, Centre Jaques-Cartier.
- 1997: Morin, J.-Y., Rigaldies and D. Turp, Droit international public : notes et documents, Montreal, Les Éditions Thémis, 3rd edition (2 volumes).
- 1998: Schabas, W. and D. Turp, Droit international, canadien et québécois des droits et libertés : notes et documents, Cowansville, Les Éditions Yvon Blais, 2nd edition.
References
- ^ "Separatists decry McCartney's Quebec concert", National Post, July 16, 2008.
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Categories:- 1955 births
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- Canadian Presbyterians
- French Quebecers
- Living people
- Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Quebec
- People from Montreal
- Parti Québécois MNAs
- Université de Montréal alumni
- University of Ottawa alumni
- University of Paris alumni
- Harvard University faculty
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